[HN Gopher] Unsolved Problems in ML Safety
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       Unsolved Problems in ML Safety
        
       Author : pramodbiligiri
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2021-10-09 12:22 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | potiuper wrote:
       | ML=machine learning; not meta language.
        
       | unholiness wrote:
       | Some overlap here with the 2017 paper from Google Brain et al:
       | Concrete Problems in AI Safety:
       | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565.pdf
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       | A nice video from the wonderful AI safety communicator Robert
       | Miles outlines those problems:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyM-f8rDpg
        
       | sgt101 wrote:
       | These are unsolved in the sense that there is no formal or
       | comprehensive solution to them, and in the limit that means that
       | ML cannot be used for some applications.
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       | On the other hand there are mitigations that can be implemented
       | to increase the confidence that we have in ML centric solutions -
       | and that can bring some applications back into scope.
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       | Figure 5 shows this using the metaphor of layers of swiss cheese
       | that other folk have used with relation to stopping Covid. Of
       | course we can't stop Covid completely, but by being careful and
       | getting a vaccine, ventilation and masks you can improve your
       | chances.
        
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